SIM blocked, man loses Rs 4.8 lakh in online fraud

A sum of Rs 4,80,000 was transferred from a Gurgaon resident Shiv Kumar’s Axis Bank salary account to an HDFC account, between February 22 and February 24, without his permission, after his Airtel SIM card stopped working on February 14.TNN | April 24, 2017, 09:20 IST

GURUGRAM: A sum of Rs 4,80,000 was transferred from a Gurgaon resident Shiv Kumar’s Axis Bank salary account to an HDFC account, between February 22 and February 24, without his permission, after his Airtel SIM card stopped working on February 14. An FIR was filed two months after the incident happened.

Shiv Kumar, an employee of Matrix Clothing Company, Khandsa Road, Gurgaon, filed a complaint with the cyber cell on February 28. He alleged that a sum of Rs 4,80,000 had been deducted from his salary account in Axis Bank and transferred to an HDFC account between February 22 and February 24 by IMPS/RTGS transfer. Kumar’s SIM card, which was blocked, was linked to his account.

He approached the Airtel office in Sector 10, Gurgaon, and the number became functional two weeks later. The HDFC account to which the money was transferred has been identified, though the details have not been revealed yet. The additional SHO of Sector 10A police station, inspector Lal Chand, said an FIR has been registered under sections 419 (cheating by personation) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC and sections 66 (computer related offences) and 66D (cheating by personation using a computer resource) of the IT Act.